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Un avocat français s’installe en Chine
De la Californie à Israël, l’avocat d’affaires parisien Daniel Kahn s’est forgé une solide réputation auprès des entreprises technologiques et informatiques. Fasciné par son potentiel encore inexploité, il entend faire de la Chine son nouveau terrain de prédilection.
« La Chine ? Il faut y aller pour se rendre compte de ce que cela représente, du potentiel de ce pays ». D’entrée, Daniel Kahn esquisse, en une phrase presque banale, la fascination qu’il a pour l’Empire du Milieu. Celle-ci prend racine à la fin des années 1970… aux États-Unis. Étudiant en droit à Strasbourg, il choisit de poursuivre sa formation outre-Atlantique. Il débarque à Chicago, et y entame sa carrière au sein de deux cabinets américains. Au bout d’un an, il rejoint sa patrie d’origine et la branche française du cabinet. « C’était avant l’ère de l’informatique : on n’avait même pas de fax, on travaillait avec des machines à boule et du papier carbone », se remémore Daniel Kahn. Justement, parmi les clients américains de son employeur américain figurent ceux qui deviendront les premiers géants de l’informatique mondiale.
Pour eux, Daniel Kahn traduit en français des contrats de licence de logiciels et les assiste dans leur implantation en France : un exercice encore rare à l’époque. Au fil des ans, il se mue en conseiller privilégié de nombreux acteurs du marché high-tech. En parallèle, les années 1980 voient les technologies, et notamment l’informatique, façonner une société nouvelle : elle conquiert les entreprises, puis les particuliers, et son essor est plein de promesses. Enthousiaste, Daniel Kahn entend participer à cette révolution.
En 1988, il créé son propre cabinet, sans même avoir alors un seul client. Il s’envole pour la Silicon Valley, démarche ses premiers prospects parmi la kyrielle d’entreprises innovantes installées là-bas, et assoit sa légitimité au fil des contrats. Aujourd’hui, le cabinet créé par Daniel Kahn emploie une cinquantaine de personnes, dont une trentaine d’avocats – un changement d’échelle accéléré par l’arrivée d’Internet. Premier avocat français sur Internet, depuis 1992 lorsqu’il assistait NeXT, la société de Steve Jobs, il suit et participe à tous les développement d’internet, du commerce électronique et plus généralement du on-line. Généraliste, Kahn & Associés exerce en droit des affaires, en droit social, accompagne des levées de fonds et des introductions en Bourse… Ses clients français et internationaux opèrent à 80 % dans l’univers des technologies : hardware, software, Internet, e-commerce, biotechnologies, Green IT, médias…
« Je suis persuadé que la Chine, à moyen terme, deviendra la 1ère puissance mondiale, et placera plus de trois de ses entreprises dans le top 10 mondial. Nous assistons déjà à un flux d’acquisitions de sociétés européennes par des sociétés chinoises. Il y en aura beaucoup d’autres, et nous ambitionnons de jouer un rôle dans cette évolution. »
Daniel Kahn,
fondateur du cabinet Kahn & Associés
À la conquête de la Chine
À l’occasion d’un voyage en Chine, il y a une vingtaine d’années, Daniel Kahn tombe sous le charme. La dynamique chinoise, l’ébullition qui agite le pays lui font pressentir. La Chine est alors considérée principalement comme un sous-traitant des grandes entreprises occidentales : lorsque l’avocat français y revient, au début des années 2000, la donne a changé, mais la vitalité industrielle est la même. « L’évolution actuellement en cours là-bas est hallucinante : au niveau des infrastructures, de la logistique, de la production… Dans les métiers technologiques, les chinois ne sont plus l’usine du monde : ils développent désormais des produits complexes, qu’ils ne se contentent plus de fabriquer ou d’assembler ». Séduit par ce potentiel inouï, Daniel Kahn décide de prendre une part active à sa concrétisation. Il décide de nouer des liens entre ses clients français désireux de s’implanter en Chine et des entreprises locales, et d’accompagner le développement de ces dernières en Europe – notamment en France.
Première barrière à franchir, celle du décalage culturel et linguistique : « Pour faire des affaires avec la Chine, il faut soit être chinois, soit avoir dans son équipe un chinois d’origine », explique l’avocat parisien. Qu’à cela ne tienne, le cabinet français recrute une avocate chinoise, parlant mandarin et cantonais. Mieux : en octobre 2009, Kahn & Associés signe un partenariat avec le cabinet JunZeJun, qui emploie 240 personnes dont 150 avocats à Shanghai, Beijing et Shenzhen. Grâce à cet accord, qui lui confère une solide connaissance du marché et du système juridique chinois, le cabinet peut offrir à ses clients un service global pour leurs opérations en Chine. « Il était important pour nos clients de pouvoir se reposer sur les compétences d’un cabinet chinois. D’autant que JunZeJun a recruté de jeunes avocats français, israéliens, anglais, espagnols, italiens : nos clients disposent ainsi sur place d’une personne de confiance, compétente, à l’aise avec les deux cultures, et capable de faire l’interface dans leur langue », se félicite Daniel Kahn.
Des échanges économiques… et culturels
Le relationnel et la confiance jouent un rôle prépondérant dans la réussite ou l’échec d’un projet international. Daniel Kahn le sait, et en a fait l’un de ses atouts-maîtres. « Les aspects humains me passionnent, et mes interventions s’étendent souvent au-delà du rôle d’avocat. Mettre les gens en contact, accompagner leurs projets y compris au plan stratégique, tout en leur apportant les services traditionnels d’un avocat d’affaires : voilà ma conception du métier ». Et pour développer cet aspect relationnel, Kahn & Associés ne ménage pas ses efforts. Le cabinet organise régulièrement des rendez-vous avec des entrepreneurs français, pour leur présenter l’infini champ des possibles qu’incarne la Chine. En juillet dernier, Daniel Kahn a même organisé une délégation de 40 dirigeants de PME hexagonales, parmi lesquelles de nombreux acteurs du Web, pour leur faire découvrir le pays et initier des contacts avec des acteurs économiques locaux.
Réciprocité des échanges oblige, Daniel Kahn espère recevoir à Paris, en 2011, une mission d’entrepreneurs chinois. Pour le tissu économique français, l’enjeu est de taille : « Je suis persuadé que la Chine, à moyen terme, deviendra la 1ère puissance mondiale, et placera plus de trois de ses entreprises dans le top 10 mondial. Nous assistons déjà à un flux d’acquisitions de sociétés européennes par des sociétés chinoises. Il y en aura beaucoup d’autres, et nous ambitionnons de jouer un rôle dans cette évolution ». À défaut de nager avec les requins, Daniel Kahn a choisi d’accompagner l’envol du Dragon. Et le ciel n’a pas de limites…
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45% des Français pensent que DSK quittera le FMI pour les présidentielles
L’Ifop a mené une enquête sur une éventuelle démission de Dominique Strauss-Kahn de son poste au FMI dans la perspective de 2012.
48% des Français estiment que Dominique Strauss-Kahn ne démissionnera pas de son poste de Directeur au FMI avant la fin de son mandat pour se présenter en France à l’élection présidentielle de 2012.
Reviendra-t-il en France pour se présenter à l’élection présidentielle de 2012 sous les couleurs du Parti socialiste ou restera-t-il en poste à la tête du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) ? Le silence de Dominique Strauss-Kahn sur ses ambitions nationales ne le sert pas. C’est en tous cas ce qui ressort du sondage Ifop.
Au vu des jugements mitigés que l’on observe, sa stratégie semble avoir nourri un certain flou dans l’opinion : 48% des Français estiment qu’il ne démissionnera pas de son poste de Directeur au FMI avant la fin de son mandat pour se présenter en France à l’élection présidentielle de 2012 tandis qu’une proportion quasi équivalente (45%) pronostiquent qu’il quittera son poste et sera donc candidat à la présidence française.
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China is set to become the third strongest country of G-20
November 06, 2010, 12:18 AM
China is set to become the third- strongest member of the International Monetary Fund under a “historical” plan approved by the institution’s board yesterday, a position allowing the country to take more “responsibility” in the global economy, the fund’s chief said.
The plan “may have an influence on the behavior of the Chinese authorities,” Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told reporters in Washington. “They were willing to be better represented in the IMF, which shows that they care about multilateral institutions, and I expect that they will behave having in mind the importance of their role.”
Acting on an Oct. 23 deal by finance chiefs of the Group of 20 nations, the IMF agreed to shift more than 6 percent of voting rights to what officials called “dynamic” developing countries. That would give more say to nations such as Brazil and South Korea, while weakening the clout of European members including Belgium and Germany. “Advanced” European countries are also set to give up two seats on the board under the package.
The aim is to make the 65-year-old institution a better reflection of a world economy that was pulled out of the recession and is still being driven by growth in emerging markets. The planned changes come at a time when the IMF has been asked to help the G-20 monitor global trade imbalances and exchange rates amid tensions between its members over whose policies are most hurtful to a balanced global recovery.
Approval Required
The plan, which leaves the U.S. as the fund’s largest member, followed by Japan, now requires the approval of an 85 percent majority of the 187 members’ votes. Most countries will then need to go through a legislative process to enable the changes.
Strauss-Kahn said he doesn’t see reasons for a new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to delay the approval process because it’s in “the interest of the United States.”
“We catch up with the reality,” he said. “The ranking of the countries is really the ranking they have in the global economy.”
Strauss-Kahn and officials such as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner have tried to link access to bigger clout at the IMF to the need to act differently on the global stage, a hint at China to accelerate its currency’s appreciation. China has said it’s done enough to deserve more say.
‘Big Moment’
While the governance package is “a big moment” in the history of the fund, it’s unlikely to prompt China, which moved from the sixth rank, to adopt a different stance on the yuan, said Bessma Momani, a professor at the University of Waterloo’s political science department in Canada.
“For people to expect the Chinese to somehow switch gears and become very vocal at the IMF because of its increase in political weight there is very premature,” she said.
After the changes take effect, the fund’s 10 biggest shareholders will comprise the U.S., Japan, Germany, the U.K, France and Italy as well as Brazil, Russia, India and China. A smaller shift in voting rights of 2008 has still not been implemented.
The agreement ends months of negotiations that saw the U.S., Europe and some emerging nations at loggerheads over who should give up power.
The U.S., Japan and Canada are shedding some voting power under the agreement, while India, Russia and Mexico gain. Not all emerging countries are increasing their clout, with Argentina and South Africa’s share falling.
Yesterday’s vote also closes a debate unexpectedly forced by the U.S. in August over which countries should sit on the institution’s board of directors, a panel that will now permanently have 24 chairs.
European Seats
The developed European nations’ plan on how to give up two seats is not yet agreed on, though it will probably be based on having some European countries take turns at the board with emerging economies, according to two European officials who spoke on conditions of anonymity. Turkey and Poland may benefit from the changes, the officials said.
The shift in voting shares will take place through a general increase of quotas, which also determine members’ financial commitment to the fund and access to loans. That means the IMF’s permanent resources will be doubled to about $750 billion, mostly by shifting countries’ contribution from an emergency pool, according to the G-20.
Vatican Bank find out Clergymen Accounts laundering money !
October 21, 2010, 2:48 AM
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Italian prosecutors probing alleged money-laundering at the Vatican Bank suspect some clergymen may have posed as account holders at the lender for wealthy individuals, Corriere della Sera said, citing court documents.
A Rome judge yesterday upheld the seizure of 23 million euros ($32 million) in an Italian bank account registered to the Institute for Religious Works, as the Vatican bank is called, and three other operations are under scrutiny for alleged money- laundering violations, the newspaper said.
In one case a priest allegedly moved 300,000 euros from an account in San Marino and transferred it to a businessman, Corriere reported.
The U.S.A Must Sell More to China and Inde to Rebuild Economy
November 06, 2010, 1:07 AM
The U.S. must sell more to Asia to help rebuild an economy recovering from its worst recession since the Great Depression, President Barack Obama said in an opinion piece published yesterday in the New York Times.
U.S. companies will announce contracts worth “billions of dollars” in India, said Obama, who said he aims to double exports in five years. The president also said he’ll work to complete a trade agreement with South Korea during his 10-day, four-nation swing through Asia.
Obama’s trip begins days after U.S. voters in midterm elections turned control of the House of Representatives over to Republicans and narrowed the Democratic Party’s Senate majority. The sluggish U.S. economy, a national jobless rate at or above 9.5 percent for 14 consecutive months and a federal budget deficit forecast by the administration to hit $1.4 trillion this year were top issues in the campaign.
“We need to find new customers in new markets for American-made goods,” Obama wrote in the New York Times. “Our government, together with American businesses and workers, must take steps to promote and sell our goods and services abroad — particularly in Asia.”
Obama is visiting India and Indonesia before heading to the G-20 summit in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, and the APEC meeting in Yokohama, Japan. He is joined on his trip in India by a group of chief executives including Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co. and Jim McNerney of Boeing Co.
“It is hard to overstate the importance of Asia to our economic future,” Obama wrote. “We want to expand our trade relationships in the region, including through the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to make sure that we’re not ceding markets, exports and the jobs they support to other nations.”
Losing Market Share
The U.S., once the top exporter to South Korea, has dropped to fourth place, the president wrote.
Exports of American goods to Indonesia jumped 47 percent in the first eight months of 2010 from the same period a year ago, he said. Every $1 billion the U.S. exports support more than 5,000 jobs in the nation, he said.
Obama said he will seek to reduce barriers to U.S. exports in India. His three-day stay in that nation will be the longest in a foreign country of his presidency.
India offers a rapidly growing market for U.S. companies, including Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE, the world’s biggest maker of jet engines, power-plant turbines and locomotives.
India is the U.S.’s 12th-largest trading partner and commerce between the two countries more than doubled to $37 billion in 2009 compared with 2003, according to U.S. Commerce Department data. In the first eight months of 2010, total trade topped $32 billion.
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Obama Visits India With Focus on stopping China Economy
November 06, 2010, 1:21 AM
Nov. 6 2010.
President Barack Obama’s mission overseas in his first two years in office was improving the U.S. image abroad. His next round of travel is focused on repairing the U.S. economy and his relationship with businesses at home.
During a 10-day, four-nation trip, Obama is peppering his schedule with events linked to expanding U.S. exports. On his first day in India, the president will today address the U.S.- India Business Council in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, and huddle with a group of chief executive officers including Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co. and Jim McNerney of Boeing Co. to help push along multibillion-dollar deals for U.S. companies.
“The primary purpose is to take a bunch of U.S. companies and open up markets so that we can sell in Asia, in some of the fastest-growing markets in the world,” Obama said Nov. 4 after meeting with his Cabinet at the White House. In an opinion piece published yesterday in the New York Times, he said companies will announce contracts worth “billions of dollars” in India.
While planned long in advance around scheduled meetings of the Group of 20 nations in South Korea and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Japan, Obama’s trip begins four days after U.S. voters in midterm elections turned control of the House of Representatives over to Republicans and narrowed the Democratic Party’s Senate majority. Obama described his party’s losses as a “shellacking.”
New Focus
The sluggish U.S. economy, a national jobless rate that has been at or above 9.5 percent for 14 consecutive months and a federal budget deficit forecast by the administration to hit $1.4 trillion this year were top issues in the campaign.
Obama’s previous overseas trips focused on his vision for U.S. relations with the world, said Heather Conley, director of Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
“Post midterm election, it’s the balancing act of addressing the domestic urgency at home and jobs and being responsive to a very fast-paced international scene,” she said.
Obama said he wants to “show the connection between what we’re doing overseas and what happens here at home when it comes to job growth and economic growth.”
The Indian government is helping the president make his case. “Our investment is creating, saving or supporting tens of thousands of jobs in the United States,” Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told reporters in New Delhi Nov. 4.
Longest Stay
Obama’s three-day stay in India will be his longest in a foreign country as president. Asia’s third-biggest economy, India offers a rapidly growing market for U.S. companies, including Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE, the world’s biggest maker of jet engines, power-plant turbines and locomotives.
GE last month won India’s biggest single order for gas and steam turbines, a deal the company valued at more than $750 million, and is seeking nuclear plant contracts there.
Chicago-based Boeing expects to bid for $31 billion worth of military contracts in the next 10 years as it competes with Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp. and other suppliers for orders following a tripling of India’s defense budget.
India is the U.S.’s 12th-largest trading partner and commerce between the two countries more than doubled to $37 billion in 2009 compared with 2003, according to U.S. Commerce Department data. In the first eight months of 2010, total trade topped $32 billion.
High Priority
Obama has given closer relations with India a high priority, as illustrated by his hosting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the first state visit of his presidency.
Indian officials are looking for the Obama administration to loosen restrictions on trade in high-technology goods, especially those that may have both military and commercial uses, and help in battling extremists, said S. Chandrasekaran, director of the South Asia Analysis Group, a policy-research organization in India.
“It has to be two-way,” Chandrasekaran said. “India is looking for access to dual-technology and better cooperation in counterterrorism, while the U.S. wants business access in India.”
While Obama’s stay in India is likely to yield “a few workman-like agreements,” there is “going to be no big bang” to boost the slowly growing economic and strategic partnership, Sumit Ganguly, an Indian-American political science professor at Indiana University, said in a phone interview in New Delhi.
Memorial Service
“Unless both governments suddenly pull some rabbits out of their hats, the results will not be as dramatic as they’d hoped,” he said.
Obama begins his trip with a memorial service today for the victims of the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. He’ll stay in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the scene of dozens of deaths. Tomorrow he’s scheduled to leave for New Delhi, the capital, where he will hold talks with Singh. Obama will address India’s Parliament Nov. 8.
The president will also find some time for cultural excursions. He will visit a former Mumbai residence of the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, and the New Delhi tomb of a 16th century Mughal emperor, Humayun.
After India, he will squeeze in a twice-delayed trip to Indonesia, where he lived as a boy, before heading to the G-20 summit in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, and the APEC meeting in Yokohama, Japan. That portion of the trip also is focused on U.S. economic concerns.
‘New Markets’
“We need to find new customers in new markets for American-made goods,” Obama wrote in the New York Times. “Our government, together with American businesses and workers, must take steps to promote and sell our goods and services abroad — particularly in Asia.”
“Obama in his international globetrotting now has to show that he is creating benefits for American business,” said Steven Clemons, an analyst at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based policy research group. “He is shifting from a kinder, gentler, less unilateral stance in terms of foreign policy to one where he needs to show bottom-line benefits from American engagement abroad.”
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